League of People Voters?

Though no one muttered "Yes, but would you want your sister to marry one?", delegates to the League of Women Voters' national convention had some second thoughts last week before finally deciding, 969 to 433, to admit--of all creatures--men as full participants. The 155,000-member league, formed in 1920 to educate women about issues, candidates and their own newly won franchise, has about 1,000 male associate members who could neither vote on policy nor hold office. Granting men full rights struck some women delegates all wrong. After all, they pointed out, the feminist Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution has yet to be ratified by the required 38 states, and some male-dominated legislatures seem to be in no hurry to do so.

Such reservations were finally talked down. As one delegate put it: "If we don't want to be discriminated against, we can't discriminate against others." But the convention put off, at least until its next meeting in 1976, the delicate question of the organization's name. Integration should logically lead to a new title. League of People Voters, perhaps? If the idea spreads to other groups that now use gender in their titles, the possibilities are endless. Progeny of the American Revolution? Persons' Christian Temperance Union? Camp Fire Kids?

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so viewer discretion is required.